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I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.
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You have to invent life.
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women I don't even want to meet them or see them.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
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I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.
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I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
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